I recently watched Alex Gibney's Catching Hell, which was excellent. Linking together two unjust scapegoats -- Buckner and Steve Bartman -- it perhaps belabors the point about the fake "curses" that surround both organizations too much, but the point is a good one. The curses...
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Not eternal, I guess, even if a lot of the music will live.
As Amanda says, the third incident retold here -- which involves a guy lying to his partner about using a condom and going right ahead until she finds out that.
I can at least understand why Reuters went ahead with the farcical Soros conspiracy theories -- money is money and a Drudge link is a Drudge link. But what possible reason could there be at this late date to hire Gregg Easterbrook to write a...
Covering up serious criminal offenses should, you know, be criminal: The Roman Catholic bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Robert Finn, and the diocese he leads have been indicted by a.
Highways, like trains and public transportation, generally do not pay for themselves. But only the first are never expected to.
I'll have more to say about Corey Robin's assessment of Scalia in The Reactionary Mind soon. In the meantime, this insight (p.25) made me think of Newt's recent radical attacks on judicial authority: There's a fairly simple reason for the embrace of radicalism on the...
Shorter Ann Althouse and Glenn Reynolds: Any questioning of the privileges of our Galtian overlords is inherently anti-Semitic.
"Frivolous" might seem snarky, but Stevens is actually being charitable about Scalia's disgraceful opinion justifying the Bush v. Gore stay.
Well, Reuters certainly embarrassed itself today. Seriously, that's almost Mickey Kaus level work. ...since the Reuters has cleaned up the story a bit, I note Felix and Alex discussing how the original was even worse.
Dr. Pepper introduces a harebrained ad campaign that seems designed to go beyond the mere garden-variety misogyny so often presented by America's marketing community and go somewhere really special: This.
The House Republicans are essentially one big death panel.